A transformation from digital medicine to translational medicine: what roles should clinical doctors play in different phases (T1, T2 and T3) of digital medicine?                 LU Qi-ping. Department of General Surgery, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Military, Wuhan 430070, China
Abstract    While the concept of translational medicine has been widely carried out in the clinical work, a rapid development has been made in digital medicine in the past few years. In this paper, the successful elements derived from the domestic outstanding teams in digital medicine are analyzed, which involve the innovative ideas, definite research objects, cooperative team members with multi-disciplinary backgrounds and the gritty volition, as well as excellent team leadership. Accordingly, in order to realize a leaping development of digital medicine in clinical work, it is explored that what roles and responsibilities clinical doctors should play and perform, and how the concept of translational medicine could be established by clinical doctors to further promote their subjective initiative in different phases of digital medicine.